Re: [Zope-dev] Namespace declaration using pkgutil vs pkg_resources

Martijn Faassen wrote:

Since ``setuptools`` is a dependency of our packages anyway, we can instead do the following::

__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)

Feel free to use that and also feel free to simplify existing ``__init__.py`` modules. Just make sure ``setuptools`` is a declared dependency of the package.

Nit: In this case, two lines are better than one. import pkg_resources pkg_resources.declare_namespace(__name__) There's no need to use the lesser known __import__ function when an ordinary import statement will do. Shane